Viewing Meredith79's Garden Diary: My Garden

Friday, July 5, 2013

Coral Sunrise

Friday, July 5, 2013

Royal Sunset

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Tropical Dream Compared to Marquee

Left is Tropical Dream L.A. Lily which have been open for a few days
Right is Marquee which just opened.

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Friday, June 28, 2013

Callirhoe

My Poppy Mallows are blooming and I swear they are fragrant I can't figure out what else could be making the front smell so nice and they are the only flowers that have a scent when sniffed up close. It is so weird because I can't find it anywhere else on the web that they are fragrant and that could have made the deal for me getting them before I decided to try these!

Okay I think I figured out that the strong scent was actually from all the white clover blooming right near the Callirhoe because my husband couldn't cut the grass during all the days of rain. Go figure!

Monday, September 17, 2012

Front Entry Border

Sedum Autumn Joy is in full bloom. The Painted Lady Butterflies love it. I have seen Viceroys the last few days, on the Bi Color Butterfly Bush that is behind the Japanese Maple.

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Monday, June 20, 2011

Rock Wall Garden

Kniphofia ~ Torch Lillies
I grew these from seed and this is the first year all the plants are beginning to bloom!
Last year only one plant bloomed. I'm very excited and I hope the hummers love them as much as I do!

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Delphinium Time

Delphinium exaltatum I grew from seed last year is blooming for the first time. I have two different color variations.

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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Coral Honeysuckle

My Coral Honeysuckle is at it's best right now.

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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Karley Rose

I really love the Karley Rose grasses I planted last year and I am very happy they overwintered as they were listed as hardy to zone 6 and I am 5b. Phew! I planted 7 so I was keeping my fingers crossed with those!
Added - Aug. 13th
Not only did they overwinter but the two in front of this picture must really like this spot because they've completely filled it in! Probably partly due to all the rain we've been getting.

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Saturday, July 12, 2008

Monarda

Mid July is when the Monarda didyma are stars of the garden for me. Here is the Purple closer up.

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Friday, July 11, 2008

Walkway Garden

I've been re-vamping this area so things work better.

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Saturday, July 5, 2008

More Color Now

This is my favorite view of the nectar garden, it's from where I sit on the lawn when I feel like just watching the busy pollinators. The purple in the background is Monarda I grew from seed labeled Panorama Mix. The orange in front is from Butterfly Weed which I also grew from seed.

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Friday, July 4, 2008

Red Asiatic Lilies

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Friday, July 4, 2008

Mailbox Garden

This garden is still a work in progress which is kinda funny because it is the first garden I put in when we moved here. Not a whole lot seems to thrive in this spot and it's hard to place stuff so it doesn't look outta place.

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Transylvanian Sage & Maltese Cross

These two make nice companions.
Only problem is the Maltese Cross gets pretty ugly by late July. It keeps blooming a little bit but there are a lot of yellow leaves.I cut all the seed heads off and it helped a little but I think these may work better if they were scatetered amongst something so they could be cut back without looking like there is a gap in the garden. I have the same problem with Monarda and Sweet William. I haven't thought of a solution yet. The only idea I have come up with is to plant them in back of something that gets tall much later than them and the only one I know of is New England Aster. I had 1 and divided it to split in to two but I still need a lot more if I am to use it in front of all the Maltese Cross, Monarda and Sweet William I have!

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Bradbury Monarda & Sage

The Bradbury Monarda looks nice in front of theTransylvanian Sage as well.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Penstemon

I think this is Iron Maiden, if not it is P. eatoni. I grew them both last year and my baby girl pulled the plant tag out of the ground so I don't know for sure which were which because I planted them side by side.These weren't planted close enough for it to work as a combination but if you look hard you'll see the Transylvanian Sage and Maltese Cross in the background which made me realize it would be nice in front of them.

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

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Saturday, April 26, 2008

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Saturday, April 26, 2008

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Monday, April 7, 2008

Crocus

We are finally getting some spring weather and all the crocus are open now.

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Monday, April 7, 2008

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Today in the Garden

Today it is sunny and a comfortable 55F. More crocus are blooming and the daffodils should soon follow.

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Friday, March 28, 2008

New England Spring Weather

Yesterday I was admiring my first crocus blooms and today I am watching the snow fall! Getting snow in early spring is pretty typical for New England so I am not super surprised.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Island Planting Update

I would no longer consider this an island planting, but rather a side border. After initially planting it we had trees removed so in 2007 I spent the most time of the gardening season expanding this area. I can't fit the whole thing in one photo! Here is, what is now the middle of the area. You can see the tarp I had down to kill the grass on the right of the picture. This too is now finished and I can't wait to see if all my hard work pays off next year!

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Watch My Garden Grow

A week later the Hyacinths and Daffs are past but my Lily Flowered Tulips are blooming. The purple ones were labeled as 'Burgundy' and the other ones are 'Elegant Lady'.

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Monday, May 7, 2007

Watch My Garden Grow

About a week later the Dutch Hyacinths and Daffodils are in full bloom. My Sedum 'Autumn Joy' and Artemisia 'Silver Mound' are growing well now.

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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Watch My Garden Grow

Just about 3 weeks later things are growing and blooming.

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Monday, April 9, 2007

Watch My Garden Grow

This is my front entry walkway in the beginning of April. It is barren except for some dead looking Heuchera foliage, that actually stayed nice up until the recent snow we've had. We had a strange winter this year. It was very warm in early January, I noticed lots of plants starting to grow and even some flower buds on my Lonicera sempervirens (Coral Honeysuckle). We had hardly any snow until around the end of March and beginning of April.

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Watch My Garden Grow

I bought 3 Winter Heaths from Home Depot. The pretty pink flowers looked so nice in the dreery weather. I have major spring fever and can't wait to see some flowers. These should be a nice addition to my front entry walkway for their late winter early spring blooms and their evergreen, so it won't just look like a mulch bed all winter.

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Our New House

I started getting into gardening a couple years ago. My desire to have a butterfly garden started after purchasing a butterfly bush at Home Depot. I had a gorgeous Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on it one day. It was the most beautiful butterfly I'd ever seen. I don't remember ever seeing big beautiful butterflies like that growing up, I only remember seeing the smaller skippers and such. So that's how it started, I decided everything I planted from then on would be for butterflies. Then I saw hummingbirds at a feeder for the first time, at my relatives house up north. I had tried a hummingbird feeder once, but didn't have any luck. I got one for a gift and since it only had directions for making nectar and no other info, I thought you could put nectar in it once and that was the end of it. Well I now know better, and this year I tried to get the best hummingbird feeder I could find, and with much success got to enjoy regular visits from a male ruby throat. I also started planting plants for hummingbirds, so now I have to call my self a butterfly and hummingbird gardener.
We moved into our house in January 2006, we have a 3/4 acre lot. A big difference from our condex, which actually had over an acre, but most of it was unusable from a garden standpoint. The first two seasons I started gardening pretty much filled up my garden space. So now I am very excited, the yard had practically nothing in the way of landscaping, which actually appealed to me, because that meant that I could fill it up with what I wanted. As soon as the ground was workable I started planting and haven't stopped even up to today Oct. 17, 2006. I still have some Itea virginica to plant, and some various bulbs that I ordered but haven't received. So I am off to a good start. We had about 30 trees removed mostly from the back yard. My husband builds amazing gunite swimming pools for a living and he's going to start one as soon as possible.
I need the rest for my huge mixed border I plan on having, consisting of anything and everything I can find for butterflies and hummers. It's a work in progress but hopefully by next spring he'll have the yard to a point that I can start planting in the back yard.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

The Front in Mid Summer

This is the best picture I can find showing how much different the front already looks, and I've done more since this was taken. I'm still in the midst of planting spring bulbs, but once I get it mulched again I'll take more pictures.

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Friday, July 7, 2006

View of Whole House

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Sunday, June 11, 2006

Island Garden Bed

This is the newly planted Island Bed.

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Monday, April 17, 2006

Before Pictures

October 17, 2006

This is a picture of the front of the house early in the spring. We actually planted the Alberta spruce, put in some path lights, edged out and put down the mulch seen. The Alberta Spruce replaced a huge arborvite that was way too big for it's spot and the crowded against it Azalea, that was growing half into the walkway. As you can see the Spruce pretty much fills in the space on it's own, so just imagine a 15 foot tall aborvite and a 4 ft wide azaela there Ugh! Both rhododendrons seen were very leggy and needed some serious pruning. I ended up moving the one in the front to the side yard because it seemed like it was getting too much sun, after I moved it, it seemed happy, but then the tree removal man killed it when he took down some trees around it. I pruned the one on the side so that it would fill in a little nicer, so it probably will take a couple years, but it should fill in nicely. It's already had lots of new growth this season.